2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
I spent the first half of 2010 in Ipswich. I traveled to Spain, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, France and Holland. The first half of 2010 has been amazing. I watched all the movies I wanted to. I dined on English hilltops and Spanish roadsides. Looking back, it's been a wonderful year. The highlight of the year- travel.
There have been a few days of emotional discomfort towards the end of the year, but the brighter side of the year has been exceptionally bright which actually makes all the darker discomforts look bleak and trivial. Life is a puppy bitch.
I came across some brilliant music this year. I immersed myself entirely into indie music. More recently I have been listening to Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, The Hold Steady, The Black Keys, Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club et al. I have played Blitzen Trapper's Furr and The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Bravery, Repetition and Noise albums a hundred times already. But, my love for Metal still remains. And my love and respect for indie and folk has been growing every hour.
I have watched some great movies this year. Some at the theaters, most at home. And I have managed to write reviews of all the films I've watched. The reviews have been posted on facebook. It's a pain to dig through the older posts and copy them here. If you are interested you may read them on facebook.
Ah! The pleasure in boasting.
Books. This has been a pathetic year for books. I read just one over the course of 4 months- Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I've started reading Stephan King's Under the Dome and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife, both of which I haven't been able to complete due to absolute laziness, which has been plauging me my entire life by the way, and has been on a rise ever since I started dozing off while sucking on the nipple. There have been innumerable distractions this year- television (Entourage, Seinfeld, The Simpsons), women (sigh), internet (social networking, webcomics, unmentionables) and bad movies (I watched most of the commercial bullcrap of the year). I hope I'll get back to my good ol' days when I enjoyed reading as much as I enjoy Sasha Grey perform now.
Speaking of Sasha Grey, the lady's got brains. It's not just boobs and butt, she's got brains as good as her body. Respect.
I want to get back to blogging. I am working on avoiding the distractions and this post proves I've been improving. I'll write more. I guess.
All in all, 2010 has been very satisfying if not for The Expendables and my previous manager. And oh, if I haven't mentioned it already, I'm Bangalore these days. Finally moved out of Mysore for good. I miss the calmness and non-metro aspect of that city and maybe a few other things. It's been 3 years there. Good days those.
I'm hoping for lots of beer, good movies, great music, love and happiness in the coming year.
For the first in my life, I'm not being a emo fuckturd.
And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees
You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees
So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please.[vid]
There have been a few days of emotional discomfort towards the end of the year, but the brighter side of the year has been exceptionally bright which actually makes all the darker discomforts look bleak and trivial. Life is a puppy bitch.
I came across some brilliant music this year. I immersed myself entirely into indie music. More recently I have been listening to Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, The Hold Steady, The Black Keys, Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club et al. I have played Blitzen Trapper's Furr and The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Bravery, Repetition and Noise albums a hundred times already. But, my love for Metal still remains. And my love and respect for indie and folk has been growing every hour.
I have watched some great movies this year. Some at the theaters, most at home. And I have managed to write reviews of all the films I've watched. The reviews have been posted on facebook. It's a pain to dig through the older posts and copy them here. If you are interested you may read them on facebook.
Ah! The pleasure in boasting.
Books. This has been a pathetic year for books. I read just one over the course of 4 months- Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I've started reading Stephan King's Under the Dome and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife, both of which I haven't been able to complete due to absolute laziness, which has been plauging me my entire life by the way, and has been on a rise ever since I started dozing off while sucking on the nipple. There have been innumerable distractions this year- television (Entourage, Seinfeld, The Simpsons), women (sigh), internet (social networking, webcomics, unmentionables) and bad movies (I watched most of the commercial bullcrap of the year). I hope I'll get back to my good ol' days when I enjoyed reading as much as I enjoy Sasha Grey perform now.
Speaking of Sasha Grey, the lady's got brains. It's not just boobs and butt, she's got brains as good as her body. Respect.
I want to get back to blogging. I am working on avoiding the distractions and this post proves I've been improving. I'll write more. I guess.
All in all, 2010 has been very satisfying if not for The Expendables and my previous manager. And oh, if I haven't mentioned it already, I'm Bangalore these days. Finally moved out of Mysore for good. I miss the calmness and non-metro aspect of that city and maybe a few other things. It's been 3 years there. Good days those.
I'm hoping for lots of beer, good movies, great music, love and happiness in the coming year.
For the first in my life, I'm not being a emo fuckturd.
And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees
You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees
So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please.[vid]
that song, the tune, reminded me of mr tambourine man, for some reason.
when you mention 'perform', i'm assuming you're not talking about aTelecine. i saw the girlfriend experience quite a while back. agree about the brains part.
Yeah, both the songs are folksy. You should listen to some of their other songs. They are good.
'Perform,' as in Perform. Know what I mean?